[Peace-discuss] Jubilee: ask Durbin and Burris to support amendment stopping IMFcuts in education and health

[Robert Naiman]

switchboard: 202-224-3121

When you speak to the receptionist, you can say:

"My name is ___________ and I'm calling from
_______________[city/state].   I am calling to urge Senator ________
to support an amendment to the supplemental bill currently on the
floor of the Senate. I am asking Senator _________ to indicate his/her
support to leadership, and vote for the Brown amendment which would
reform IMF policies to protect health care and education spending in
poor countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. It is amendment
#1161. "

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Neil Watkins, Jubilee USA Network <neil at jubileeusa.org>
Date: Wed, May 20, 2009 at 2:55 PM
Subject: Last Call for IMF Reform
To: naiman at justforeignpolicy.org



CALL YOUR SENATOR AND URGE THEM TO SUPPORT THE BROWN AMENDMENT

Dear supporter,

Thank you for those of you that have been able to call Speaker
Pelosi's office today to encourage her to be a leader on IMF reform -
it is making a difference.  I am writing to ask you to make another
call for the world's poor.

Without your help right now, the Senate may give the IMF a $100
billion blank check with no requirements to change its policies that
have long negatively impacted the world's poor. At this moment, the
Senate is debating and will soon vote on the wartime supplemental bill
- along with $100 billion and new authorities for the IMF.

It is not every day that we ask you to take action twice. But as
Congress considers giving more than $100 billion to the IMF, it is
critical that Congress use its leverage to win real change in IMF
policies that limit poor countries' ability to invest in health care
and education.

Senator Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) has introduced an amendment to the
supplemental bill which would require the IMF to stop impeding
increased health and education spending in the poorest countries
through policies that limit government spending or wage bill ceilings.
This is an important amendment that would help the world's poor.

CALL BOTH OF YOUR SENATORS TODAY AND ASK THEM TO SUPPORT THE BROWN
AMENDMENT to reform IMF policies to protect health care and education
spending in poor countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Don't
know who your Senators are? Click here.

To reach your Senators, dial the Capitol switchboard at 202-224-3121
and ask for your Senator's office.

When you speak to the receptionist, you can say:

"My name is ___________ and I'm calling from
_______________[city/state].   I am calling to urge Senator ________
to support an amendment to the supplemental bill currently on the
floor of the Senate. I am asking Senator _________ to indicate his/her
support to leadership, and vote for the Brown amendment which would
reform IMF policies to protect health care and education spending in
poor countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. It is amendment
#1161. "

Click here for more information and background on IMF Reform.

The language of the Brown amendment is: "The Secretary of the Treasury
shall instruct the United States Executive Director of the
International Monetary Fund to oppose any loan, project, agreement,
memorandum, instrument, plan, or other program of the Fund that does
not exempt spending on health care, education, food aid, and other
critical safety net programs by the governments of heavily indebted
poor countries from national budget caps or restraints, hiring or wage
bill ceilings, or other limits on government spending sought by the
Fund."

Thanks again,

Neil Watkins
Executive Director, Jubilee USA Network





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